Dumbest Line in Firefly
POSTED BY: YT
UPDATED: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 03:57
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You seem to forget that Anti-Gravity, engines, terraforming, and anything else convienient to the plot is made of magic on Firefly.
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I agree that there are no dumb lines in Firefly, and you really just don't get it. But if I have to give an example it would be when in The Train Job Jayne is laughing about what Wash said about blowing a new crater in this little moon, it seemed out of character because I could never see Jayne laughing at anything Wash says.
He's not laughing at what Wash says, he's laughing at the yokels, who don't know a transport ship has no guns.
Kinda like threatening to blow up a tank with a greyhound bus, or holding up a bank with a comb in your pocket, pretending it's a gun.
To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. --Robt. Heinlein
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You're correct about the actual dialog, and there's nothing "wrong" with it.
I was just amused by the error in the subtitle, which was, "So, very much for a lovely night, then." Doesn't make much sense with that mistake, does it?
"Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark." R. A. Heinlein
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Oops, my mistake. Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa. I've never turned on the subtitles.
How humiliating. And in front of another Heinlein fan, to boot!
To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks. --Robt. Heinlein
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R1Z wrote:
Tuesday, August 30, 2005 12:27
Oops, my mistake. Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, Mea Maxima Culpa. I've never turned on the subtitles.
How humiliating. And in front of another Heinlein fan, to boot!
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We all make mistakes . . . don't worry about it.
It was a microscopic one anyway.
And yes, I too am a great Heinlein fan.
In fact, years ago, I personally knew the man upon whom Heinlein based his character of Professor Bernardo De La Paz.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:
Originally posted by BlueBomber:Quote:All cargo and transport ships are constructed with an exotic element yet to be discovered that exerts a gravitational pull to simulate gravity on board. It does not require power, except to negate it's effects (As in the pilot when they were bringing cargo in from space, Mal clearly pushed a button to cut off the gravity-negation field to drop the crates on the floor).
Originally posted by chrisisall:
Lights are backed up by bio-luminecence, a loss of power and those little critters glow something fierce, almost as bright as the real thing.
YFC Chrisisall
Me thinks ya got it perxackly backwards.
You don't need a "gravity negation field" in space . . . where there is no gravity.
What Mal did was to turn the artificial gravity back on.
Serenity DOES have artificial gravity. Do you remember in THE MESSAGE, where Kaylee explained how the artificial gravity and natural gravity toss the lunch around a bit when they conflict?
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Quote:No, I must check this immediatly. Thanks.
Originally posted by LoadAndMakeReady:
Serenity DOES have artificial gravity. Do you remember in THE MESSAGE, where Kaylee explained how the artificial gravity and natural gravity toss the lunch around a bit when they conflict?
Chrisisall
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Originally posted by captainreynolds42:
worst line in firefly hands down
Random villager : she's a witch
Mal: yeah but she's our witch
Good lord did joss get bruce campbell to write that for him
If someone trys to kill you, you kill em right back
Let's just take a moment to examine the line in it's entirety and in context before we go casting aspersions on one of my favorites, shall we?
The line is: "Yeah, but she's our witch, so cut her the Hell down!"
Remember, that the emotional context of the episode is River and Simon's search for a home, a place where they can be "Safe." Earlier in the episode, Mal has made another reference to kicking them off his ship if Simon can't control River. When the hill folk's teacher asks, "If it isn't here, where is it?" referring to Simon's home, he can't answer her. Serenity isn't their home yet because they haven't been accepted as part of the crew/ family. When Simon sees Serenity take off without them, he's convinced that the captain has abandoned them, so when the BDHs arrive just in the nick of time, he's astonished.
When Mal says, "She's our witch," he is both acknowledging all of the things that make River "different," scary, inconvenient, etc. *and* claiming her as part of his crew/ family in the same breath. That moment, when Mal claims River, and by extension Simon, is the climax of the episode distilled into two perfect words. "Our witch."
Later, Mal has to spell this out for Simon, who still can't quite believe that he's no longer in danger of being rejected by this new father figure. "You're on my crew." "Yeah, but you don't even like me." "You're on my crew. Why we still talkin' about this?"
Joss is a cinematic poet. For the ideas that really matter, he distills his stories down into only what *needs* to be said, and trusts the viewer to infer the rest.
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The line in HoG where she says "I've been waiting for you to kiss me since I showed you my gun" C'mon. The delivery and line itself bother me because it could have been a passionate touching moment. And like we geeks need another big guns cause raging libidos scene in anything.
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